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5.Comments:

• I did not know that inking and painting is more suitable for a women to do; I thought anybody can do it.
• Seems like inking and painting is very hard; inking and painting is precision work that requires neatness and patience.
• So I guess women are better than men; just kidding.
• I thought that using color for animated characters is hard but using color for animals is just as difficult; the animals have to stand out against the background.
• I don't think I do inking and painting because I have very little patience.

4.Questions:

• What is the difference between a No. 6 and a No. 7 brush?
• What is the Animation building?
• Who is Grace Bailey?
• How many girls are usually working in the paint lab?

3.Vocabulary:

• Truism: a self-evident, obvious truth.
• Dispensary: a charitable or public facility where medicines are furnished and free or inexpensive medical advice is available.
• Fruition: attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment.

2.Literary Terms:

• Imagery: "But the dragon is an evil black and purple color that is starkly outlined against the sky." (page 177)
• Direct Characterization: "Inking and painting is precision work that requires neatness and patience. Women seems to have those qualities, plus a necessary feeling for their work." (page 175)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes ink and paint ( how it is used and how it was made).

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5.Comments:

• I think color is very important to animation.
• I think that color represent what mood you are in; if you are in a bad mood you will probably wear dark colors but if you are in a good mood you might wear bright colors.
• I did not know that flowers and trees featured the first use of color in a movie cartoon; I thought it was the animated characters' clothing that featured the first use of color in a movie cartoon.
• I think that using color for animated characters is difficult because the colors represent the character's personality.
• I did not know that the use of color required close coordination between the animated characters and the background; it's similar to how teens like to have their clothes mathing.

4.Questions:

• Who is Wilfred Jackson?
• What does "muted colors" mean?
• What is the Technicolor process?
• Who is Art Riley?

3.Vocabulary:

• Biliousness: pertaining to bile or to an excess secretion of bile.
• Advent: a coming into place, view, or being; arrival.
• Unfeasible: not capable of being carried out or put into practice.

2.Literary Terms:

• Simile: "Absorbing color is like eating steak." (page 171)
• Imagery: "You look out the window and you will find there is gray in everything-the trees, the sky, the mountains." (page 174)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes more about colors and how it is used in animation.

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5.Comments:

• The making of an animated feature takes a lot of effort because it is a matter of putting an infinite number of pieces together; too much work for me to do.
• I did not know that the bakground artist is also a stylist.
• I think the background artist is important in making animation because they perform one of the most important functions in the production of picture.
• I think the layout men is important as well because they establishes the field of action and outlines the appearance of the set.
• I respect Eyvind Earle for not giving up on his dreams.

4.Questions:

• What is "Technirama"?
• What is "Flemish"?
• How much did the early Japanese print markers cost?
• Who is Pieter Brueghel?

3.Vocabulary:

• Provincial: belonging or peculiar to some particular province; local.
• Mosque: a Muslim temple or place of public worship.
• Alpine: of, pertaining to, on, or part of any lofty mountain.

2.Literary Terms:

• Direct Characterization: "Eyvind Earle loves trees. Especially ancient, time-encrusted ones." (page 164)
• Indirect Characterization: Returning to California, he applied at Disney once more in 1951." Eyvind Earle has perseverance and determination. (page 164)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes the background and color of the animations and describes about Eyvind Earle.

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5.Comments:

• I always thought that drawing females was hard but apparently that's not always true; in "Sleeping Beauty" it's really tough to draw the male hero.
• I thought that animators have always been artists but I was actually wrong; early animators weren't really artists, they developed into artists.
• Drawing humans is tough; the drawings have to be very detailed.
• Disney studio have high standards for hiring people to work; Disney studio hopes to find in applicants good draftmanship, ability to be polific, aptitude for technical perfection, sense of caricature, and sense of discernment.
• I don't think I could be an animator because I can't draw and I don't meet any of the requirements.

4.Questions:

• Why was money tight at the studio?
• Where is Chouinard Art School located?
• What is the relationship between animation and anatomy?
• Who were the top animators at Disney studio?

3.Vocabulary:

• Discernment: the faculty of discerning; discrimination; acuteness of judgment and understanding.
• Aptitude: capability; ability; innate or acquired capacity for something; talent.
• Intermittent: stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately ceasing and beginning again.

2.Literary Terms:

• Imagery: "A great section of earth juts upward with a roaring quake ... A flicker of lightning licks across a mountain plain ... A flaming tree hurtles to the ground." (page 153)
• Indirect Characterization: "Banjo player Harper Goff was always breaking a string." Harper Goff is not a very professional banjo player. (page 159)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes what Disney studio looks in an applicant, how animators draw human beings, and animation effects.

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5.Comments:

• I did not know that Disney craftsmen created the multiplane camera in the middle thirties (I never knew that there was even a multiplane camera).
• A multiplane camera has many parts to it such as the camera carriage, exhaust, overlay foreground plan, etc.
• I would love to see or use a multiplane camera.
• I did not know that the multiplane camera was used to great effect in the opening scenes of "Bambi".
• I did not know that there was two types of multiplane cameras; the horizontal and vertical multiplane cameras.

4.Questions:

• Are there still multiplane cameras being used?
• Who is Dick Anthony?
• Who is Bob Ferguson?
• Who is Ken Anderson?

3.Vocabulary:

• Divergent: diverging; differing; deviating.
• Ephemeral: lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory.
• Elliptical: pertaining to or having the form of an ellipse.

2.Literary Terms:

• Dialogue: throughout the chapter
• Direct Characterization: "The horse-rider is Ed Kimmer, a handsome young actor..." (page 132)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes the multiplane camera (how it is used and why it was created).

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5.Comments:

• I thought that a director's job is to tell people what to do but a director actually constructs the scene, selects the camera angles, paces the action, maneuvers the crowds, etc.
• Animation directors have a lot to do so I think that their role in making cartoons and motion pictures are extremely important.
• I did not know that the directors also uses the camera; I thought that only the camera men uses the camera.
• I did not know that the director uses the camera to arrive at the momentous decisions on staging his scenes by using using two elementary factors which are the dramatic structures and the limitations of animation medium.
• I would love to be a director one day but I wish there will be less work for me to do.

4.Questions:

• Are there any famous Disney directors?
• What is a "posed test"?
• What is the "clean-up test"?
• What is a "rough animation"?

3.Vocabulary:

• Cataclysmic: of, pertaining to, or resulting from a cataclysm.
• Tedium: the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
• Harangue:a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.

2.Literary Terms:

• Simile: "Lightning bolts crackle out of her staff like the lash of a whip." (page 110)
• Metaphor: "As Maleficent comes out of her fit, she seems almost to be recovering from a heart attack." (page 110)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes what an animation director does and how an animation director uses the camera.

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5.Comments:

• Wow! The whole production for "Fantasia" cost $2,200,000; that is a lot of money.
• "Fantasia" was a unique achievement because music was finally introduced to cartoons.
• I have never watched "Fantasia" before but I would love to someday.
• I love to listen to music and I think music is an important part to cartoons.
• Composers are very important because they are the ones that create musical compositions.

4.Questions:

• What is Tchaikovsky?
• Who is Leopold Stokowski?
• What was "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" about?
• What is "moviola"?

3.Vocabulary:

• Liaison: a person who initiates and maintains such a contact or connection.
• Centaurs: one of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
• Jauntier: easy and sprightly in manner or bearing.

2.Literary Terms:

• Metaphor: "Paul Smith might sweat out a musical sequence, working nights and weekends." (page 87)
• Indirect Characterization: "Gregarious Oliver Wallace has been known to knock out musical compositions in record time." Gregarious Oliver Wallace is a very good composer. (page 87)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes about the music that Walt Disney began to use in his cartoons such as Beethoven's "Pastrol" Symphony and Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring".

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5.Comments:

• I did not know that Mary Costa sang and spoke the role of Princess in "Sleeping Beauty".
• Sound effects men had to deal with broken bottles and blank cartridges; now I know what they actually used to create the sounds.
• I love Jacques and Gus (they are the mice in "Cinderella"); they are so cute.
• I did not that Eleanor Audley had voiced as the queen in "Snow White" and Maleficent in "Sleeping Beauty".
• I did not know that the crinkling of cellophane sounded exactly like a roaring fire.

4.Questions:

• Why was Bill Thomas called "Old Timer"?
• When was Pinocchio created? Was it created into a motion picture?
• What is a "Silly Symphony"?
• When was "Peter Pan" created? Was it created into a motion picture?

3.Vocabulary:

• Ingenuous: free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
• Baritone: a male voice or voice part intermediate between tenor and bass.
• Prodigious: extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force, etc.

2.Literary Terms:

• Simile: King Hubert was described as "built like Bill Thompson son, fat and square... lovable but hot-tempered... gets caught in his own trap then explodes... sincere." (page 73)
• Direct Characterization: "Fauna is a little bit nitwitted..." (page73)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Describes the instruments used to create the sounds in cartoons and the actresses/actors that voiced for the cartoon characters.

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5.Comments:

• I did not know that "Snow White" was made into a motion picture in 1937 and drew lots of money into theaters.
• I think story men are very important because they create the stories and without them we will not have stories to read.
• I did not know that everything should be related to human experience in storytelling.
• "Sleeping Beauty" required in excess of seven years to achieve the finished product; that's a very long time.
• I love "Snow White" and "Sleeping Beauty".

4.Questions:

• What is the difference between motion pictures and cartoons?
• Why did it take Walt Disney so long to achieve the finished product of "Sleeping Beauty"?
• What is the exact amount of money "Snow White" drew into theaters?
• Who is Winsor McCay?

3.Vocabulary:

• Predecessors: one who precedes another in time, especially in holding an office or position.
• Pantomime: the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
• Convulse: to shake violently; agitate.

2.Literary Terms:

• Simile: "I found that when old ladies move, they bounce like mechanical toys." (page 37)
• Imagery: "The two frivolous pigs looked plump, but their light-footed dancing gave them an airy appearance." (page 49)

1.Overview Sentence:

• Explains the elements that make good stories and story men.

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5.Comments:

• I did not know that "Sleeping Beauty" was more than a motion picture; it was a work of art.
• WOW! "Mickey Mouse" was created in in 1928; that was a very long time ago.
• I can't believe Walt Disney had set up the first cartoon studio in Hollywood (in 1928).
• I did not know that Albert Hurter provided the early inspiration for the "Three Little Pigs" and "Snow White".
• Now I know why the TV program is named Disney Channel; it was named after Walt Disney.

4.Questions:

• What is the difference between anime and cartoon?
• Who was Alfred Hitchcook?
• What was the cartoon "The Wayward Canary" about?
• Who was J. Stuart Blackton?

3.Vocabulary:

• Quintessence: the most perfect embodiment of something
• Celluloid: a tough, highly flammable substance consisting essentially of cellulose nitrate and camphor, used in the manufacture of motion-picture and x-ray film and other products
• Primitive: being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, esp. in an early age of the world

2.Literary Terms:

• Dialogue: throughout the first 20 pages
• Setting: "notes and sketches piled deep on the two desks, paintings and signs thumbtacked to the walls, records scattered near a phonograph in a corner." (page 12)

1.Overview Sentence:

• In 1923, Walt Disney cam from Kansas to set up the first cartoon studio in Hollywood and started working on new cartoons.

ROAR BOOK: Walt Disney the art of Animation